Duty Quotes - Page 17

As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former. A right is not effectual by itself, but only in relation to the obligation to which it corresponds.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

Duty is God;Work is worship.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.

The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself